CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the writer presents background of the study, previous study, limitation of the study, problem statement, objective of the study, benefit of the study,
and research paper organization. They are as follows:
A. Background of the Study
Most of human in the social life use a communication for interaction and give understanding well. And to reach it must be connected between
communicative and should have a relationship each other. In our life, the communication not only in spoken or written, but an act also has an important
role. Language as means of communication has very important role for us in
our daily social interaction. With language, human being can express their thought and knowledge to the others in their daily lives. Language is also used to
express the idea and to convey all messages. Conversation is a real form of language use. It is the process by which
the participants communicate each other. In order to communicate to others, one should know the speaker’s aim and intention. One must also understand the
appropriateness between language use and context. The speaker should be aware
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of what they are doing with the language and the listener has to try to understand the speaker’s intention. Therefore, the hearer should know the speaker’s
communicative intention in producing an utterance. This is one of the realizations of certain social communication, namely speech act.
In attempting to express them, people do not only produce utterances containing grammatical structures and words, they perform actions via those
utterances. Yule 1996:47 called perform action via those utterances as speech act, and in English, are commonly given more specific labels, such as apology,
complaint, compliment, invitation, promise, and request. One of the acts can be shown through love. Love is an important way to
maintain a relationship. The way people express their feeling to someone has to influence to hearer, but it depends on the interaction between the speaker and the
hearer and the interpretation that is caught by the hearer. Human will express something if they attract on something especially with their couple.
The best way to show someone we really care is by words and how our actions make them feel special. We need to say something coming from the heart
and show them from our soul. Love is a feeling that we experience in so many different ways toward various people. Expression of love is actually one
realization of certain social communication and it is closely related to speech acts in which the speakers perform the act through his utterance.
Nowadays, people show their love not only in oral or written but in an act via utterance is also important way. This way is more effective to show the
feeling and for now it became something famous or up to date. As we know many teenagers show their love through an act and words. For example,
someone gives love to his someone who his really care by saying “I’ll be here as long as you need me”, he assured me. It means that love can be expressed in
many acts. People tend to choose this way or an act via utterance to show their
feeling because they thought it can help them more effective by do that and also more perfect. Most of people influenced and tend to do an act which they got
from a movie, even from a novel. By reading a novel, we can indicate the word, phrase, sentence, or even utterance that showing an act. We can find many acts
included in many kinds of utterances. According to Christy Rakoczy 1996 , there are some Other Ways to
Express Love. Since we have covered so many ways to say, “I love you” or to express love, here are two sets of ideas for ways to show love. The first set is
other things to say and ways to act:
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Keep our promises
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Be honest
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Forgive and forget
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Apologize
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Really care
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Keep holding on
From this case, the writer is interested to take this phenomenon that happened in our social life into her study. Many people tend to choose this way,
show their feeling through an act via utterance. It can indicate that people aware out has used an act via utterances to show their something that they felt. And the
writer also connected this case with a study an act, namely speech act. Related to the explanation above, the writer is interested in analyzing the
love expression in the romances novel. Twilight is modern romantic story between a girl and the vampire, Bella Swan Kristen Stewart is different with
the other girls. When her mother married again and sent Bella to live with her father in the Forks small town, Washington. When Bella met Edward Cullen
Robert Pattison, Bella fell in love with Edward. The example of utterance love expression that is found in Twilight dialog
novel is:
“Don’t worry, Bella, “ he said in a low but cheerful voice, “we’ll take care of things here quickly”
The participants in the utterance are Bella and Edward. In this utterance, Edward shows his love expression through his really care for Bella. When
Edward said, “Don’t worry, Bella, “ he said in a low but cheerful voice,”
reassures Bella that he will be alright through his face shows that he really asks Bella hasn’t need worrying him.
Based on the phenomena above, the writer is interested in analyzing the
love expression in the form of research paper entitled: Love Expressions found in TWILIGHT Novel by Stephenie Meyer: A Pragmatics Analysis.
B. Previous Study
